Windows CE client

End-of-Life notice

We started developing our Windows CE client over a decade ago, and it has been a strong deal breaker in many cases since then. But technology is constantly evolving, and Microsoft ended the support for Windows CE some years ago.

Now it is our time to phase out Windows CE. We see that more and more customers are moving to Android devices, with more processing capacity and more flexible hardware. We are also putting a lot of effort into making the Flow Android client the prime choice for warehouse and other barcode-intense environments. With less clients to develop, we can also focus our efforts to where we think they will benefit our customers the most. However, to make the transition to as smooth as possible for our customers that still uses Windows CE, we will continue to maintain the Windows CE client over the coming two years. For the full schedule, please see below.

Milestone	Description	Date effective
End Of Life	Novacura makes a public End-Of-Life announcement of the product.	24 September 2019
End Of Development	The last date for when new features are developed for the product. After this date the oroduct will only be maintained according to the maintenance contract between Novacura and the customer.	31 October 2019
End of Sale	The last date to order the product. After this date, the product is no longer for sale	31 December 2019
End of Support	The last date to receive any type of support or maintenance of the product. After this date the product becomes obsolete.	30 September 2021

Novacura Flow is an innovative, rule changing software with one sole purpose: to improve your critical business processes. With Novacura Flow, we put the business and the user in focus, allowing you to create intelligent and user friendly business applications in three simple steps: Design, Configure, Run.

System requirements

Windows CE Client requires version 5.0 or newer with .NET Compact Framework 3.5.

Installation

Go to http://community.novacuraflow.com/downloads/ to download the WinCE client.

There are two ways to do the installation either with the .Cab file or the manual way to move the unzipped folder Device to the scanner device.

Always install the client under the flash drive on the device, otherwise can the installation be lost when doing a reboot

Install with .cab file:

Move the file to the scanner and run the file on the device. After the installation is done, change the Novacura Flow server address in the setting.xml.

Manual installation:

Change the address to the Novacura Flow server address in the file setting.xml. Copy the Device folder with the changed settings.xml file to the scanner. Create a shortcut to the .exe file on the desktop.

Good to know

• If the error message: An error message is available for this exception but cannot be displayed because these messages are optional and are not currently installed on this device. Please install 'NETCFv35.Messages.EN.wm.cab' for Mobile 5.0 and above or 'NETCFv35.Messages.EN.cab' for other platforms. Restart the application to see the message. appear, then download and install NETCFv35.Messages.EN.wm.cab and NETCFv35.Messages.EN.cab on the device, this will make the real error appear. Download here: https://home.novacuraflow.com/Downloads/CE-language.zip

• To setup the device to, after a scan, automatically move forward in the workflow, go to the control panel and open "NID scanner" and go to tab "Misc2" and set the scanner prefixes and postfixes to semicolon. As in the picture to the right. This will make everything that is scanned automatically get a semicolon in front and the end of the scanned value.